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Form of workHow you'll make a difference
You will be make a difference as a School’s Finance Officer by working as part of a small team to provide specialist, professional support services covering all areas of finance to enable schools to fulfil their statutory obligations and strategic functions. Ensuring schools maximise the funding available to deliver the best opportunities to young children.
This is a term time only position plus 10 working days and a limited term contract until 31 December 2025.
What will you be doing?
- You will be taking responsibility for supporting and advising a number of schools through structured on-site visits and office based support to ensure the effective financial management of school resources. This may include attending meetings of managers and/or School Governors as required (including evenings).
- You shall ensure that schools and budget holders understand and comply with South Gloucestershire’s accounting practices and procedures.
- You will be using budgeting and accounting software to provide budget modelling and basic information (for example pay rates) to assist schools with their budget setting and monitoring. This includes advising schools on recovery plans and staff reduction arrangements as appropriate.
- You shall be handling queries via the helpdesk on a rota with other members of the team providing advice and support, and taking ownership for responding to and/or resolving queries and requests from initial contact with the customer.
- You will be providing financial training and support direct to School Business Managers, Finance Admin Staff, Head teachers, and Governors in school as well as delivering training for a number of schools.
What we need from you
- You will have a qualification to Association of Accounting Technician level or working towards it, or hold a School Business Manager Qualification (for example level 4 Diploma in School Business management (formerly CSBM)) or equivalent experience in a relative area.
- You shall have experience of using computerised databases and monitoring systems, for example CIVICA and HCSS (Access Education) and be proficient in MS Office Packages (including Word, Excel, Outlook).
- You must have a good understanding of the financial requirements of local authority schools and academies including budget setting and monitoring. E.g. with experience of working at an appropriate level in an educational establishment, a local authority finance department or another organisation supporting schools financially.
How a career at South Gloucestershire Council is different
We know our team work best when they have balance in their lives and we offer genuine flexibility to help them achieve that work/life balance.
We value our staff as individuals, investing in their careers and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and development offer, which helps make the greatest long-term difference in work.
What’s special here is the strength of the team ethos, the support and the training.
We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.
Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.
- We’re providing essential services across our internal network to ensure we can fully support our community.
- We’re positive and forward thinking, always looking for new and innovative ways of working work and we’re ambitious about the future.
We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.
We’re making a difference, be part of it!
For more information, please contact Claire Paines on email [email protected].
This is a term time only position plus 10 working days and a limited term contract until 31 December 2025.
There is an expectation that annual leave will need to be taken in the school holidays.
Interviews are scheduled for week commencing 22nd July 2024.
